Louise Orwin is a performance

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who makes research-based performance and video projects about what it means to identify as a

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, in a world that prizes masculinity, straightness and whiteness. A performer-playwright who uses writing, live performance and video, Orwin has created several theatre shows that have toured internationally to performance spaces, galleries and festivals.

Career

''A Girl and A Gun'' 2016 toured the

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in 2016. ''The Norwich Radical'' reviewed Louise's show when it toured to NorwichArtsCentre "The brilliance of Orwin’s piece: a play without a narrative, but driven by an over-arching narrative that is so blindingly obvious we never thought to question it." ''Oh Yes Oh No'' - 2017 - 2019 LondonTheatre1 reviewed the show in 2017 giving it 4 stars. "Louise Orwin’s ''Oh Yes Oh No'' is certainly a piece to be talked about… once you’ve found the words." Orwin draws from recorded interviews with victims which were then played out throughout the performance. Mike Levy from ''The Cambridge Critique'' stated "These disembodied voices contributed to the stunning tapestry of sound and light. It was as I said a tough watch". During 2020 Louise created an online digital work, ''Ur Favourite Scary Movie''. Giving 4 stars by ''The Crumb'', London, Isabelle Tyner reviewed the work, "Orwin confronts many traditions of scary movies, naming the cliches and plots of ones that came before". Tyner concluded that "with gritty spoken word and detailed sound effects ''Ur Favourite Scary Movie'' provides a refreshing perspective on horror, as well as a psychological journey".

Theatre shows

* 2013 ''Pretty Ugly'' * 2015 ''A Girl and A Gun'' * 2017 - 2019 ''OH YES OH NO'' * 2018 ''CRY CRY KILL KILL''

Digital work

* ''Ur Favourite Scary Movie''

Personal life

Orwin lives in London.

References

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